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The Linkdown for Thursday, June 23
If the Linkdown is acting a little weird this week, it’s because he’s saying goodbye to some treasured colleagues this week.
The Internet, ever churning, keeps going. Here’s what you should be checking out:
Events:
- Austin High Tech Happy Hour tonight (Thursday) at Molotov.
- Friday, the Texas Advanced Computing Center is holding a 10-year anniversary event.
- Out of town but still interesting: Industry Giants gaming, animation and special effects event in Dallas this weekend.
- Edited to add: RISE Fast Pitch on Tuesday at the Alamo Drafthouse.
Internet goodness:
- Time Warner Cable rolls out 50-megabit “Wideband” Internet service in Austin for $99 a month.
- The Winklevoss twins drop their Facebook lawsuit, keep good looks, athleticism.
- The “Harry Potter” books are venturing into e-book territory.
- Locally developed “Ms. ‘Splosion Man” arrives July 13th.
- Austin’s BASHH (the happy hour) has expanded to Atlanta.
- American Express and Foursquare announce a rewards partnership.
- Also recently hacked: Sega.
- Austin’s Piryx (which I always had trouble spelling) is now the more keyboard-friendly Rally.org.
- “City of Heroes” is going free-to-play.
- KUT.org has launched a website and logo redesign.
- Verizon unlimited wireless plans are due to end in July for new customers.
- Big changes in domain name rules.
- Really cool: augmented reality app finds movie scenes that line up with your location.
- Much-needed Facebook iPad app may be coming soon.
- Brian Lam is leaving Gizmodo.
- Really bad security lapse on the part of Dropbox.
- Best Buy introduces a new cloud music service. Early word is not great.
- Japanese pop star, it turns out, is not really real.
- Changes to Microsoft’s cloud service Skydrive.
- Smart Pick makes your iPhone into a real air guitar.
- Yahoo launches an app search service.
- Charles Darwin’s personal library documents have been digitized and put online. Why wasn’t this discussed on the Miss USA pageant?
- Redbox launched video game rentals nationwide last week.
- New York Post cuts off iPad browser readers, diverts them to an app instead. (Browsers other than Safari are apparently unaffected.)
- Red Bull’s inventor-friendly Creation event.
- First Bytes Summer Camp was held this week, exposing teen girls to computer science-related careers. Photo below, as they visited the Texas Institute for Robotic Surgery.
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